Through 5 p.m. EST on Dec. 30, these bands delivered another 17.7 inches of snowfall to Erie International Airport. Since the initial heavy lake-effect snowbands starting hammering Erie on Christmas Eve, it has now picked up a whopping 83.8 inches of snow in just under six days' time.

Christmas Week Historic Lake-Effect Snow

From Christmas Eve through the morning of Dec. 27, Erie's snow total was an astounding 65.1 inches. A stationary lake-effect snow band off Lake Erie dumped an incredible 34 inches of snow at Erie Airport on Christmas Day alone, with an additional 26.5 inches on Dec. 26.

That's not a misprint. Erie picked up more snow in less than 36 hours in this event than its previous 13-day snowstorm record.

Needless to say, the 120.8 inches of snow so far in December (as of 5 p.m. EST on Dec. 30) is the city's snowiest single month on record, clobbering the previous record of 66.9 inches in December 1989 by over 4 feet.

This is also more snow in one month than Erie averages in an entire winter season – 100.9 inches.

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